7 tracks. Running time 60:29 After a few years playing in a rock band Dutch musician Frank Roodzant returned to his roots in electronic music. The most recent result is Mix the Signals, a combination of classic EM styles including Berlin School, spacemusic, and melodic. Running through this album is a strong sense of Frank's influences; it's not hard to detect nods to the likes of Jarre, Tangerine Dream, and Vangelis. A short opening track "Aliens among us" gets the album underway. The sound of gently sloshing water forms a backdrop to otherworldy echoing clicks and dim drones. Then vocally tinged electronic refrains come in as a prelude to a pleasant melody of a plucked instrument sound. Finally the piece bursts into a short dramatic crescendo of drums and big synths before settling back down. In most of the tracks the influences are obvious. Thankfully Frank integrates these into his own style rather than doing thinly veiled rehashes of works by those past masters. Most of the tracks tend to consist of upbeat rhythmic and melodic passages, but there are some brooding spacemusic and symphonic sections reminiscent of Vangelis, and Jarre's Oxygene in particular. The quality of music is fairly consistent throughout the album; in my opinion there aren't any tracks that stand out ahead of the others, but there aren't any bad ones either. However, the track I enjoyed most is "Fabelhaft". Beginning with skittering airy effects over a resonating drone synthetic winds then blow past and a plonky bubbling sequence starts up. The mood then picks up as "wah-ing" synths circle around the soundscape for a short time before a kind of sensuous metallic percussion joins in. The percussion, a la Vangelis on See You Later, continues with symphonic synth melodies towards the before it finishes off quietly against a watery background. Anyone seeking some good old fashioned EM which nonetheless sounds modern could do worse than check out Mix the Signals.